RoseMott Vineyard will open May 10th

Another addition to the
Georgia Grown Trail promoting agri-tourism is about to be complete.

It's a new tasting room
for wine made right here in South Georgia.

The greatest challenge to
creating the RoseMott Vineyard was getting grapes to grow well in Colquitt
County. The DeMott family overcame that challenge and they are putting the
sweet finishing touches on The Winery at Gin Creek.

The doors to the RoseMott vineyard
will open to the public on May 10th. The DeMott family turned this old storage
barn into a wine tasting room, but it's been quite a challenge.

"Keeping it as originally as we
possibly could, so when people come to visit us they can see the originality of
what our daddy and granddaddy built ninety-years ago," said Doug DeMott,
co-owner.

Doug DeMott says he's proud to have
preserved the character of the old barn.

"The authenticity of the
building, I look up and I see what they created and we brought that back to
life so that means so much to me," said DeMott.

The only thing they had to change
inside the barn was adding the tasting room bar.

"We didn't want to disturb the
structure of the building, so we left it in tact with the flooring, all this
stuff is original," said Doug DeMott.

The wine tasting barn will be open six
days a week, eleven am to six pm Monday through Friday and on Saturday eleven
am to eight pm, but these times are not set in stone.

"We can adjust these times
according to how things flow, if we see where there is a need to alternate the
times a little bit then we will do so," said DeMott.

He says no matter what happens with RoseMott
vineyard, it has already been a great success.

"For us to turn it in and bring
it back to life, it's just the greatest feeling in the world to us, it means a
lot," said DeMott.

The Packhouse Tasting Room
opens at noon on Saturday May 10th with live music, food and giveaways.